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5/10/2017

Exodus 7-12, Proverbs 16:5, Proverbs 16:18, Isaiah 14:12-15, Ezekiel 38:11-19, Joel 3:1-3, James 4:6.

Pride

Many great men and women have fallen because of pride. I blessed them with unique talents and they ended up thinking the gifts I gave them were from their own minds. Pride entered their heart and like Lucifer himself they too fell from their places of honor. Children the gifts and talents I give you are for the edification of the body. They are not for you to hog or boast about. When you let pride creep into your heart beware that sooner rather than later you will fall off your high horse. The talents and gifts I give you are not so that you can lord it over others. No man has the right to raise himself above another and look at others with disdain. I am quick to humble the proud for pride is the number one cause of conflict in the church and many never deal with it because pride is a deceiver. Pride deceives you into thinking you deserve the position and honor you crave and you deserve credit for your talents and gifts at the expense of others. No man young or old, black or white has ever escaped my swift judgment on pride. I am quick to deal with pride because it is a deadly poison that corrupts everything and everyone it touches. It is easier to hold burning coals close to your chest than to live a Christian life full of pride. For this reason I am quick to humble my children. I have no patience with pride because it will not only topple the one who possesses it but also those around him that he touches with it. It will lead to pain, anger, bitterness, rejection, inferiority complex, loneliness and even paranoia. Truly pride brings out the worst in the man who embraces it and to the ones he touches with it. I have brought down presidents, religious leaders, the wealthy and even entire nations that have raised the banner of pride against me. Look at the kingdoms of old, look at Egypt, I broke Egypt’s pride with my 10 plagues, they were never able to recover from that to this day. I dissolved the great Roman Empire for the same reason. They were filled with pride and their leaders even dared to consider themselves gods in much the same way pharaoh did and just like I humbled Egypt I did the very same thing to the Roman Empire. In time they could not deal with the rebellion that haunted their colonies or the greed of their rulers and they like Egypt faded into the sands of time. Did I not also humble the British Empire which once had a reach across the globe? But now they are diminished in the eyes of the world. Greed and pride toppled all the European colonies that were established worldwide, the leading colonizer being Great Britain. In much the same way I will topple all the nations that have raised themselves up against me in pride. America will fall, Russia will fall, China will fall, Japan will fall, the Islamic nations will all fall. You have allowed pride to enter your hearts thinking you grew great under your own power. You have spat in my face and blasphemed my name; you have persecuted my prophets and the rest of my children. For centuries I have watched as you systematically put your plan of world domination into play. It is time to play in the big leagues, all of you against me. I will bring you down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat and there I will be glorified among you. Your pride I will break like a twig and your power I will overshadow and you will be humbled never to rise again among the nations.

Amen.

 

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